He and his children were following the track home about 6.20pm on Friday when his 16-year-old daughter screamed in pain. Her right foot had come down on a sharpened spike, about 7cm long, protruding from the ground.

"When she screamed, I thought she had rolled her ankle at first, but then we just saw blood everywhere," Mr Burnett said.

"When we realised what it was, we thought the spike might have gone right through her foot.

"We had to carry her home and compress the puncture wound."

Mr Burnett believes someone who lives nearby has set the trap after becoming fed up with the loud noise of trailbike riders.

The spike was "like an arrow tip" and would have gone through any footwear.

It appeared the spike had been drilled into a sharpened stake of wood and dug into the ground to keep the spike upright in the sand.

"If my daughter had been jogging it would have gone straight through her foot," Mr Burnett said.

"As a dad, I'm angry. This could have happened to anyone. The track is popular with lots of locals.

"A lot of them walk their dogs through here.

"It was very hard to see. You'd never see it if you were walking along. It's a heavily shaded area, in day time."

Mr Burnett called the Nambour police, who visited the scene on Friday night.

Mr Burnett's daughter was taken to an after-hours medical centre, where her foot was bandaged and she was put on a course of anti-biotics.

It is not the first time a potentially lethal trap has been set on a popular Coast track.

Last year, police investigated after about 10 spikes were uncovered on trails used by trailbike riders in the 100ha of undeveloped land near New Holland Dr, Pelican Waters.

Yesterday, a Queensland Police Service spokeswoman confirmed the Woombye incident was being investigated.